Technical Cooperation

Project Name:

Agribusiness Project (Indonesia)

Project Description:

This Agribusiness Project in Bogor, Indonesia, will provide assistance to an Agribusiness Development Center as a foundation for improving poor agricultural techniques and marketing capacity within the area. Farming systems in and around Bogor are relatively traditional and have focused only on production yields rather than quality, which has resulted in poor profits among farmers. As such, specialists will work with counterparts the center to perform demonstrations and coach farmers in developing crops of high economic value, including organic vegetables, non-organic vegetables and crystal guava. The project will also involve working with the center to develop grading, packing and storage facilities, as well as planning, logistics management and other management systems, in order to establish efficient production and marketing systems and thereby improve farmers’ incomes.

Overall, the project will:

Organize agricultural production and marketing teams and train them to operate independently.

Extended crystal guava production over 5.18 hectares, organic vegetable over 2.5 hectares and non-organic vegetable production over 29.23 hectares.

Produced one SOP handbook on the reproduction of guava seedlings and guava culture techniques, one SOP handbook on organic vegetable culture and pest management techniques, and one SOP handbook on non-organic vegetable culture and pest management techniques.

In 2014:Assisted production and marketing teams to hold regular meetings.

Project Type:

Technical Assistance and Capacity Building

Projected Benefits:

Utilize modern agricultural production techniques to improve the production standards of horticultural crops (such as organic vegetables, guava and some potential vegetables); promote rural economic development.

Establish fruit and vegetable production and marketing organizations, and provide guidance to farmers affiliated to the organization; assist in sales planning and logistics to increase sales channels; implement joint production and marketing operations and establish agribusiness systems.